Disclaimer.
First of all, let me tell you a story.
As a teenager, I had an incredibly disorganized room. It was quite a notorious mess and there should have been a photo of my room in the dictionary next to the word "mess". Really. My mother insisted that I keep the door to it closed at all times because the sight was too unnerving for her to handle.
When I was about 15, during my routine search for Hanson posters down at the mall, I found a medium-sized poster that showed an orange-haired girl in a white nightgown, standing with the most nonchalant face expression in the middle of a horribly messy room. The caption read: My room. My mess. My business.
I bought it, took it home, told my parents what the caption means [they don't know English] and hung it on my room's door, on the outside, right underneath the traditional "Lois's Room" sign. I kept the door closed and the poster was there for all to see - and it served as a warning for what you're about to witness if you dare to come in.
A quick Google search yielded not the original image, but here's something similar:
[image taken from www.cjtent.com]
Why am I telling you all this? Because I grew up to apply the same rule to the apartment I share with my husband and our two cats [except that the "my" is traded for "our"], and I'm applying it to my LJ as well. It means that here, I'm free to write about whatever I want and in the exact way and language I deem appropriate to the subject matter. If you don't like it, take yourself to a room where there's a mess you'll like better. (Для особо любопытных - да, я имею в виду тебя - я же для тебя не существую, так что же ты сюда суёшься? А ну брысь отсюда. Цензуру будешь наводить у себя дома, а я верю, что вещи надо называть своими именами.) I am not particularly controversial - as far as I remember, there were no epic arguments here except for one, and I wasn't the one who started it - but there have been attempts to censor me and mold me to someone else's liking, and I will not bend down to that.
I friend people whose LJs I enjoy reading, both English- and Russian-speaking. I write in English and Russian, however the muse strikes me. Many entries here are friends-only, because some things are more private than others and there's a family situation due to which I don't want to write certain things for public access.
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As a teenager, I had an incredibly disorganized room. It was quite a notorious mess and there should have been a photo of my room in the dictionary next to the word "mess". Really. My mother insisted that I keep the door to it closed at all times because the sight was too unnerving for her to handle.
When I was about 15, during my routine search for Hanson posters down at the mall, I found a medium-sized poster that showed an orange-haired girl in a white nightgown, standing with the most nonchalant face expression in the middle of a horribly messy room. The caption read: My room. My mess. My business.
I bought it, took it home, told my parents what the caption means [they don't know English] and hung it on my room's door, on the outside, right underneath the traditional "Lois's Room" sign. I kept the door closed and the poster was there for all to see - and it served as a warning for what you're about to witness if you dare to come in.
A quick Google search yielded not the original image, but here's something similar:
[image taken from www.cjtent.com]
Why am I telling you all this? Because I grew up to apply the same rule to the apartment I share with my husband and our two cats [except that the "my" is traded for "our"], and I'm applying it to my LJ as well. It means that here, I'm free to write about whatever I want and in the exact way and language I deem appropriate to the subject matter. If you don't like it, take yourself to a room where there's a mess you'll like better. (Для особо любопытных - да, я имею в виду тебя - я же для тебя не существую, так что же ты сюда суёшься? А ну брысь отсюда. Цензуру будешь наводить у себя дома, а я верю, что вещи надо называть своими именами.) I am not particularly controversial - as far as I remember, there were no epic arguments here except for one, and I wasn't the one who started it - but there have been attempts to censor me and mold me to someone else's liking, and I will not bend down to that.
I friend people whose LJs I enjoy reading, both English- and Russian-speaking. I write in English and Russian, however the muse strikes me. Many entries here are friends-only, because some things are more private than others and there's a family situation due to which I don't want to write certain things for public access.
All comments to this entry are screened.